The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-18
THE LITTLE BROWN JUG.
It's Plentifulness at this Season-Going
Home for Christmas.

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Christmas is coming. This is not an
nounced as a startling piece of news, but
merely as an introduction to the remark
that the shadow of the coming event is
plainly visible. The activity and hilarity
of the season is beginning to be seen and en-
joyed Just as much as if Christmas had
never been around this way before.
Most of the hilarity is sealed
up in jug and marked Pure
wine vinegar, and it all goes by express to
! some dry country or other. Some times it is
put up in a wooden case and stenciled -
doz. grape jelly" but it smells just as sweet
under that name as under any other. All
around the floor of the express
company's office sit these jugs Of
hilarity. 1t is little surprising
that they are sent out so soon, because
the chances are that they will not last until
Christmas, but as the express company does
not take a holiday on that festival, it will
be easy to renew the supply. 1t is not
generally known how large the Christmas
jug trade has become since pro
hibition carried some of the coun-
ties. OF course it has always existed
to a certain extent because the
country people want a better quality of
hilarity at Christmas than at any other
time, and they send to the city for 1t and
let the neighborhood goods go by the board,
but since that commodity has been shut out
altogether the supply, which has to be i'm
ported, is greater, for every one must have
it. Christmas would not be Christmas
without cgg-nog, and whether the county
is wet or dry it must be had.
And the jugs in which it is sent
are of as many different kinds as
their conte is. There is the
Little Brown jug, and the old stone jug,
and the tall, thin jug, and the short, fat
jug, and then, too, there are good many
tall, fat jugs. Every one of the jug family
is represented, except the iron-bound jug
that hung in the well, or was that buckets
The question might naturally be asked:
How much beverage is there en- routel To
cob stopper has no place in those
jugs. A good, stout cork is driven
in and the top is covered with
red sealing wax. Wax of any other color
would do as well. but it would be out of har
mony with the contents of the jug. Red is
really the only proper color with which TO
seal them, and it is always used. and every
man that uses it thinks that it is pretty
good joke to seal the jug with red wax, and
that no one ever thought of it except his
humorous self.
But beside the jugs there is another indi-
cation of the approach of Christmas. The
trains are filed with colored men, all going
from the turpentine farms, and all armed
with tickets for points in North Carolina
On Dec. Is the annual settlement takes
place and the annual migration begins The
hands are flocking to the ros-gum chewing
State from all parts of Georgia, and
hundreds of them are passing through
here. The Central took out twenty
six on one train yesterday, and
one of the Savannah Florida and
Western trains brought up one crowd of
forty from Jesup and nearly as many from
other points. They are going home an ii
they don't care much whether they come
back or not just so they get home for
Christmas. They are as happy as the day
is long, for the time to which they have
been looking forward all the year has ar
rived, and if they have any troubles they
are all thrown aside.
For the information of the small BOYS it
may be stated that Gen. Anderson publishes
this morning the ordinances relating to fire.
works and bonfires, which can be touched
off during period of fifteen days, beginning
five days before Christmas and ending ten
days after, and then only in the park ex-
tension and the public squares south of Lib
erty street